BJP Denies Ticket To Udit Raj For North West Delhi Seat, Joins Congress

By Our Bureau on April 24, 2019

Known Dalit leader Udit Raj was recently denied ticket by the BJP in the Lok Sabha election has joined the Congress party on Wednesday.

Raj was the former Member of Parliament from North West Delhi. He said on Tuesday that he will resign from the party if he was not named as the candidate from the seat in the ongoing Lok Sabha election.

The ruling party at the Centre has announced Punjabi singer Hans Raj Hans’ name for the North West Delhi seat.

“Congress President @RahulGandhi welcomes Shri Udit Raj into the Congress party,” the party tweeted on Wednesday.

Raj said on Monday that he had tried to talk to BJP chief Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi about his ticket but did not get any response. Senior party leaders, including Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh, had asked him to wait, he had claimed.

In a series of tweets Tuesday morning, Udit Raj had tried to building pressure on the party for a ticket. “I am waiting for ticket if not given to me, I will do goodbye to party,” he wrote.

Raj later said while speaking to reporters that he did not know the reason why the BJP denied him a ticket.

“I trusted the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and merged my Indian Justice Party with the BJP. I now realise many smaller regional parties have benefited more by remaining independent…. I’m deeply hurt that I was not even given a chance to defend myself,” Raj said.

The BJP had fielded Udit Raj, who had joined it just before the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, from North West Delhi in the last Lok Sabha election to garner the support of the Scheduled Castes voters from the seat reserved seat for the community.

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